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In the news | Search Engine Land
Bing says it has been applying BERT since April
Bing has been using BERT to improve the quality of search results since April, Microsoft has stated. The transformer models are now applied to every Bing query globally.
In the news | ZDNet
Here’s how Microsoft is looking to make search smarter and more natural
Microsoft is continuing to evolve its unified Microsoft Search service. The latest pieces it is integrating into Microsoft Search involve its ‘Project Turing’ deep-learning work, as well as advances it is making around semantic meaning and intent. Microsoft Search, for…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Bing delivers its largest improvement in search experience using Azure GPUs
Over the last couple of years, deep learning has become widely adopted across the Bing search stack and powers a vast number of our intelligent features. We use natural language models to improve our core search algorithm’s understanding of a…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft is poised to add machine-reading results to Microsoft Search
For the past several years, Microsoft researchers have been focused on finding ways to make commercial use of machine-reading technology. It looks like some of that work is about to become commercialized in the form of bringing machine-reading comprehension into…
In the news | Microsoft Partner Network
NVIDIA and Microsoft partner to accelerate AI through graphics processing units (GPU) powered Azure Solutions
NVIDIA, a graphics technology company, needed to unlock the transformative potential of its GPUs using AI. Partnering with Microsoft, NVIDIA’s AI built a software platform that empowers developers to accelerate and build AI solutions, making AI more accessible for all.…
Learning web search intent representations from massive web search logs
| Paul Bennett, Chenyan Xiong, and Corby Rosset
Have you ever wondered what happens when you ask a search engine to search for something as seemingly simple as “how do you grill salmon”? Have you found yourself entering multiple searches before arriving at a webpage with a satisfying…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT at large scale
Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can unlock the power of training custom…
In the news | The AI Blog
As search needs evolve, Microsoft makes AI tools for better search available to researchers and developers
Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results. Today, those same users may instead snap a picture on a phone and drop it into a search box or…
In the news | NVIDIA Developer News Center
Microsoft Advancing AI-Powered Cloud Speech Using GPU Inference
Delivering speech-driven recommendations in real time with NVIDIA GPU Inference When you ask your phone a question, you don’t just want the right answer. You want the right answer, right now. The answer to this seemingly simple question requires an…